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WEEKLY NORWALK GAZETTE , T . A; ,
LIVER PILLS
the Greatestand Best of all BIOOd
Pu rifieré, have stood the test for
60 YEARS, and are the favorite
family . medicine all over the world.
Future's mm 011
hasno equalfor Rheumatism, Sore
Throat, and all pain. Used in-
ternally or externally. Is nota greasy or a
.\ sticky substance. "
For sale by all Dmggists and General Stores.
"South Norwalk.
Branch Office of—GAZETTE No. 12
North Main Street.
Minnie Lester at Hoyt’s Theatre all
next week.
—Fine cut glass, novelties in silver
and china, at Plaisted’s.
The Philharmaniac Bagpipers will
dine at A. Koehler’s to-nIght.
Rev. Father Winters will deliver his
lecture on Temperance, at Music Hall
Sunday evening.
Attorney Joseph R. Taylor is in
Bridgeport today on the case of EEO
.vs. ,Lallande de Ferriere.
The W. C. T. U. are holding a regu-
‘ lar meeting w1th Mrs. R. T. Makin, 15
Day street, this afternoon.
The funeral of James H. Smith was
held this afternoon. The interment
. was in Pine Island cemetery.‘
The class of ’67, South Norwalk High
‘school, will have an entertainment and
fair in the Franklin street school hall
" Friday, the 11th inst.
', Mrs. Mary Coon of the U. S. Patent
office, has been a visitor at her sisters,
'Mrs. Cox. on Roton Hill,
days past. She is. soon: to "return .to
Washingwn.
——-Chickens, 12l c., N Y. Market.
_§ The South Norwalk Hardware com-
l pariy has far sale the celebrated Porter
Nmucila‘ge bottle, which is perfect in
{i action, giving a clean‘ flow of mucilage
eyery time.
The store of Webb & Abbott in No-
rOton was entered by burglars; Wednes-
day night and goods of 11 miscellaneous
assortment- tO the value of about 8100
were stolen.
3?
—We will Open a fine line of Holiday" "
goods, Saturday, December 5.
Plaisted.
The hearing in the Adams appeal
drags wearily along today. Real es-
tate agents galore were on the witness
stand, testifying to the value of prb'pe'r-
_ “ty on Railroad Place.
The funeral of Captain Ctilsen, who
dropped dead ona boat at the Wash-
ington street bridge, Tuesday night,
was held this morning and the body in-
tered in St. Mary's cémetery.
_ «Leg mutton, 8 '3 , N. Y. Market.
Luther Wright will place your sleigh
- in repair iris. time for the first good
sleighing.
street is headquarters for sleighs and
wagons of ever y description.
The County Commissioners will be at
the Council rooms in this city, on Fri-
day next, for the purpose of issuing
fiaenses. This will be the last meeting
in Norwalk this. year for that purpose.
The sale of fancy articles by the
Woman’s Guild of Trinity parish, held
at the residence of Mrs. Burr Knapp on
Washington street last night," was large-
ly attendad and a goodly sum realized.
——The fishing smack Flash from Block
Island, live codfish (is a pound.
Mshington street. d3 2t.
There was an interesting Graeco—Ro-
man wrestling match between“l‘ommy”
Dunn and Fred Coleman, this morning.
Col. H. A. Saunders selected as referee
but owing to a “k1ck” by “Tommy” a
GAZETrE reporter acted in. his place.
Fred won two, straight falls and the
match. “l‘ommy” excusing his defeat
by saying that he was fasting for lthé
Bagpipers’ supper to-night and was ac-
” cordidgly weak.
Col. Russel Frost and Mrs. Frost and
son, together with theil' horses and
carriages, w11| leave to-morrow for a”
month’s stay in New‘ York. They will
stop at the Girard, and the Colonel will
commute between this city and New
York. - '
General Superintendent C. H. I’latt
and other Officials of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford road have re-
turned from a tour of inspection over
the New York division. Each section
Was inspected separately and the sec-
ond, between Woodmont and Milford
was found to be in the " best condition.
The afiicials gave Section FOreman
Kelly a handsome gold watch and
chain in recognition of the good work
. that he is doing. ’
a—A good herse blanket for 75 cents,
at M.J .MoNerney' 9, Donovan Block.
d3-3t
for several .
His factory on Madison.
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Acrowd of interesting buyers were \
on the Washington street bridge this
morning, securing fresh, live codfish
from the sloop Flash. -
“Speeler” Smith secured a number
of clam hooks this morning and went
down the harbor after shad. As an
unlucky fisherman “Speeler” takes the
bakery, but not if he tells Of his catches.
—Native chickens and , everything
. that should be found in a first class
butcher shop.
road Place.
W. H. Cleary, a brakeman‘ on the
South. No’rwalk extra freight from Hai-
lem River, got his left foot jammed be-'
tween the dead! wood boards of two
freight cars, at the depot in this city
about9z30 o’clock this morning. Dr.
L. M. Allen was summoned and 'dressed
the injury. after which Oleary was sent
to his home in Brooklyn on the Pitts-
field express.
Q
Frank Willey, the well known Eleo-
trician formerly connected with the
Tramway company, sprainéd his ankle
in Stamford on Wednesday. A “tower-
wagon” used by the Stamford'Street
Railway company in stringing wires,
fell over causing the accident. Line-
man Willey, who was on the hurricane
deck at the time, went over with the
wagon and sprained his ankle. Fore-
man Wh‘ildey, who was standing upon
the railroad embankment some. distance
away. saw the structure go over, and
leaped Off the bank. His ankle was
sprained also. Both men and the tower
wagon are laid up for repairs. Willey
sprained his ankle by a fall from a pole
on East avenue while working for the
Tramway, and was leid up for some
time by the accident.
,AMUSEMENTS.
Paul Schultz 5 Rail-'
D.42-
Minnie Lester.
Minnie Lester and her company will
Open a weeks’ engagement at Hoyt’s
Theatre next Monday. There has been
distributed in all the houses about town
a ladies’ free ticket which will admit
any lady to a free rererved seat provid-
ing her ticket is accompanied by one
paid reserved seat ticket. Tickets
must be exchanged at Plaisted's drug
store or Pinneo’s stationary store be-
fore 4 p. m. Monday. The evening
prices are 10, 20 and 30 cents and mati-
nee 10 cents to all parts of the house.
Look for the GAZETTE coupon in Sat-
"urday night’s GAZETTE.
The Turn of the Tide.
Oliver Doud Byron and Mrs. Beam :1
I presented “The Turn of the Tide, " at
Hoyt’s Theatre last night. The play
treats Of high and low life in New York,
and Mr. and Mrs. Byron were seen. to
advantage in their characters. Fred
Warren as of old furnished plenty of
mirth while Miss Genevieve Beaman as
“Pansy Black,.”. was excellent.‘ The
other characters of the play were pre-
s inted with ability.
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Parker—Burns.
A notice in a New York paper yester-
day, makes public. the marriage of El-
wardJ. Parker to Rose Burns of New
York, which took place Nov. 22, Rev.
Dr. Vail officiating.
Mr. Parker is a retired merchant, 56
years of age, and living In Darien He
is a native of Philadelphia. This Is his
third marriage. The bride is a daugh-
ter of l‘homas Burns, was born in To«
ledd, 0., and has lately lived in New
York.
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—Parlor Entertainment.
. The Speaking Oircle K. D’s. of First
Baptist church will give a parlor enter-
tainment consisting of reading, instru-
mental and vocal music on Friday. even-
ing, at No. 7 Mott avenue, for the
benefit of the church. Miss Gertrude
Lyon elocutionist, every one welcome,
in connection with the entertainment
will be held a loan exhibit which will
remain open one week. . Dec. 2, 3t
‘oo-
A. 0. H. Officers.
The annual meeting of the local A.
O. H. was held last evening. The fol-
lowing oflicsrs werefielected: Hugh Mc-
Carthy, President; James McSally,
Vice President; Richard Rryan, R. 8.;
Damel Hogan, F. 8.; P. B. Kavanagh,
Treasurer. The retiring president is
Patrick Slattery.
Newsman Benedict has received a
shipment of thoroughbred Plymouth
Rocks, which are said to eclipse any-
thing hitherto seen among any Of our
local victims of the hen-fever.
Bank of France Clint-tor.
PARIS, Dec. 4.—-The government has de~
clded to accept the principle of the renewal
of the charter of the Bank of France for
24 years. The decision will be announced
tomorrow. The select committee opposed
all schemes for a state bank.
France Against Our- Hogs.
LYONs, France, Dec. 4.——At' a mass
meeting held here of the organized farmers
unions the dealers in salt meats adopted a.
resolution in favor Of the exclusion of
American pork produ ts, in view of the
fall in the price of swine.
Pentecost Likely to Come Back.
LONDON, Dec. 4. --It is stated here that
the Rev. George F. Pentecost, the Ameri-
can evangelist, is likely to accept a call to
a Presbyterian church in Yonkers.
Postmaster-s Appointed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. -—The fourth class
postmasters appointed today Were:
Pennsylvania—Schoeneck, L. M. Wiest;
Wastondale, H. H. Musser.
Subscribe for the Gszn'r'ra.
FIRST IMPORTED ELEPHANT."
Brought Here Eighty-five Years Ago, and
,. Created Great Excitement. ‘
The first elephant was imported into
America eighty years ago. There
stands to- day a monument in the lit-
tle village of Somers, Westchester
county", to the memOry Of “Old Bet,”
the first elephant in modern times to-
tread on American soil. ‘
Somers is not alone famous as the
home of this elephant, but it was the
t, birthplace of the circus, and Hacka-
liah Bailey, familiarly known as “Un-
r.le Ha‘ck, ” was the father of the first
show. “Old Bet’.’ was the only attrac-
tion.
It was in 1821 fiiat Hackaliah Bailey
gave an exhibition under a tent on a
farm. The site is now occupied by a
church on the. main road of the vil-
lage. Many of the great showmen of
the country were trained by him.
“Old Bet”. made the trip to this coun-
try in a sailing vessel in 1814. Hackn-
liah Bailey’s brother was a sea cap-
tain, and purchased the animal while
" making a tour of the world. He named
her after his vessel, which was called
the Bet. It took many months to
transport the huge pachyderm to the
United States, for she was exhibited
by the captain at European seaports
on his way home.
When “Old Bet" was landed in New
York Hacknliah Bailey. became her
owner. There being no railroads
eighty years ago, Bailey and his farm
hands drove “Old Bet” along the coun-
try roads fifty miles to Somers. The
trip was made at night, and the huge
elephant was exhibited in barns in the
daytime.
Persons in the towns through which
the elephant passed flocked to see her,
and as money was scarce the farmers
dickered with Bailey in all sorts of
ways for admittance to the barns. Men
pawned their farming implements and
boys sold their jackknives to raise the
necessary dime.
She was exhibited by Bailey for sev-
eral months on his farm, and was
viewed by hundreds of persons who
had to pass through Somers to the‘ '
county seat, which was then at Bed«
ford.» Bailey then put her on the road.
“Old Bet” became troublesome and
killed several of her keepers. One night
in 1827 she broke loose in South Caro-
lina, and after being chased several
miles by a mob was shot to death.
True Politeness.
An old friend of Dr‘. \Vendell Holmes
once took a few friends in to call upon
him. Among them was a young mar-
ried woman, who'had never read .any
of Dr. Holmes’ books, and insisted
upon her friend’s “coaching” her 11' lit-
tle in advance. “I told her about his
works, therefore,” said the
“dwelling especially upon the Auto-
crat of the Breakfast- Table as being
perhaps the most famous of them.”
Everything went swimmingly till just
as the company was taking leave.
Then the “young married woman"
siasm,
"you how much I have enjoyed your
books, and particularly the Autocrat
of the Breakfast-Table!” Her friend
and sponsor was ready to drop thrOugh
the floor. “But her alarm was need-
less. IIolmeslsmiled in his kindest
manner, expressed his thanks, and re-
marked that many people thought the
Autograph the best thing he had ever
done. .
An Excellent Prescription.
_Thcro are doctors and doctors:
among the most intelligent of all these
friends of humanity was one who had
the courage recently to give a. bit of
advice to the head of a family not
many miles from" New York. The head
of the family was robust but exacting.
healthy but irritable.
what is the matter with my family,
doctor,” he said; “but my wife is nor:
vous, my children are suffering from
something—I don’t know what—in
fact, the whole house is upset. Even
the servants seem vacillnting and bor-
dering on nervous p1‘ost1'ation.”, “I
think it would be all right.” said the
doctor, “if you took a six months’ tour
of Europe alone.” “I,” cried paterfa-
milias—“the only well member of the
family?” ' “Yes,” said the doctor,
gravely; “you ought to travel for the
health of your family.”
BREVITIES.
The peace that is unspeakable, is al-
ways speaking for itself.
The wise cafry their knowledge, as
they do their watches, not for the pur-
poses of display, but for use.
Scene—Sunday school. Teacher:
“What are the two things necessary
to baptism?“ Small girl: “Please, sir,
water and a baby!”
An old lady said lately that she did
not care so much about a lecture she
had been listening to, but she did love
"them stethoscoplc views. ” "
An English advertisement reads: :
“Mr. Brown, furrier, begs to announce
that lie will make up gowns, caps, etc. .,
for ladies out of their own skins. ”
The ’King of Ashanti sits on a golden
stool instead of a throne and always
Wears an Old plug hat. He has 3,333
wives and is very assiduous in offer-
ing human sacrifices;
Admirals and generals are of equal
rank, but the former take precedence
whenever two officers belonging to
each grade meet together, the Navy be-
ing considered the more distinguished
service.
Those who hold that no ~man can-“.1
avoid his fate may find support for
their doctrine in the experience of
Charles J. Weller, of Elkhart, Ind. He
was employed in ,grinding at an em-
e1'y_wheel, but, regarding the position
as dangerous, handed in his resigna-
tion. Five minutes before the time
for ending his last day at work the
wheel burst and killed him. ———Philadel-
phia Ledger. _-
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. G. H. HARVEY.
BOOT. AND SHOE DEALER,
70 NORTH MAIN STREET,
\
SOUTH NORWALK.
Hoyt’s Theatre,
ONE SOLID WEEK.
Beginning Monday Dec. 7.
EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE.
MINNIE
LESTER,
inanew repertoire of plays. Opening play
Monday evening. December?
uMOLLY BAWN"
Prices, IO, 20 and 30 cents.
Wednesday. Thursday. Friday
and Saturd afi. Matinee prices 10 cents to all
parts of the ouse for everybody. Seats on
sale at Plaisted s and Pinnso’ 5 stores.
“A New York Boy” Saturday Night.
4 Matinees.
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Telephone Service. .
The Southern -
New England
Telephone Go-
TELEPHO NE SERVICE
in this City I with an
equipment of Metallic a year
Circuit and Long Dis-
tance Transmitter at and upwards.
according to the amount and character
of the service. For details, address the
LOCEI Office of the Company,
Sentinel B’ld’g., Washington St,
SOUTH NORWALK.
OFFERS
Iooo Boxes of Paper and Envelopes
5c. per Box, worth 106.
5m pounds of LINEN PAPER, ruled or plain
209. per III. worth 3011.
Must be sold to make room for
HOLIDAY GOODS.
' JOHN T. HAYES.
5 Iain Street, llorwalk.
PLYMOUTH ROCKlCE.
Stores and Families Supplied.
Lowest Rates.
11111 BIaI Renovated.
Feather Bbas. Becurled to _
Look as Good as When New,
at Moderate Cost.
.NO. 26 BE LDEN AVENUE.
.RING BELL TWICE.
IIIIIIIIHIIII & flchilEll." ' '
broke out in a pretty burst of enthuy _,
.011, Mr. Holmes, I mustwtellwwmf . ,
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Annual Premium- -' -' - $63.28.
Amount of the Policy, $1,000,00
EIEI'EEN ANNUALy PREMIUMS, .1 s63 28 each, $9.19 20 .'
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NET COST to maturity, -. 7 i"= 4 --‘ - ~ ' 750.13
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This Pelicy matured in 1896. and showed a gain Of
$249. 87,
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J OHN I. HUTCHINSON, General Accident Agent, Hartford
E E. HALLOCK, General Agent, 5 Hublnger Bldg., New Haven.
A FBEEBICYCLE!
The WHITE SHOE STORE will gIVe away
absolutely free, on Saturday evening, Janu-
ary 2.1897,.
Beautiful High Grade Bicycle.
Your Choice of Either Ladies’ or Cent’s.
A Coupon with each 50c Cash Purchase.
Don’ t forget the date and place. At
OLSEN BRO-PH ERS’
WHITE SHOE STORE
3 GAZETTE BUlLDING, NORWALK, CONN. ,
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AND; 1101131: 50095
At Your Own). Price-
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
LUTHER M. WRIGHT.
Franklin and Madison Streets South 1011111. _
Norwalk Chronicler